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After Charlie's shower last night, the following conversation took place as I dried his hair with a towel.
"Dad, can we not do a site change tonight?"
"Why?"
"My tushy doesn't feel so good."
"Well, we need to see how many units are left in the pump. Don't you want to just get the site change over with?"
"Well, my tushy really doesn't feel so good right now. Tomorrow would be better."
"I'm not sure Charlie. Let's see what mommy thinks."
"Well, right now my tushy is just charged up to 10. It needs to be at 100. By tomorrow night, it should be totally charged up."
"Uh huh," I said, playing along.
Though the boy did make a decent argument. Earlier in the day, when I tried to use his tushy as a drill to hang some window shades, it was practically useless, puttering slowly to a stop. And when I tried to use his tushy as a cell phone, I got no dial tone at all.
While plugging Charlie back into his pump, he let out a massive fart which had the resonance of a tuba quintet in the key of F.
"Whoa!" I said. "Your tushy seems to be fine to me."
"No," Charlie said. "It's just getting charged up."
Man! It may not be fully charged, but he's certainly not low on gas. I'm a little scared to see what happens when it gets to 100.
I LOVE Charlie's imagination.
Austin my 13 yr.old Grandson (Type 1 at 3 yrs. of age) was told by Children's Hos. to drink large amounts of water when his sugar was high to bring it down. All these years later I have NEVER read this anywhere, has you or anyone else? He is not on a pump, proably never will be according to Dr.'s. Thanks for any info.
Hi Peg. Doctors may have suggested drinking lots of fluids in order to lessen the effect of ketones that can develop in his urine as a result of repeated high blood sugars. To my knowledge, water cannot lower blood sugar. Only insulin or physical activity.
Ha! That's great! Funny stuff Carey!